I quit my job to pursue my side hustle full time & now I make ‘up to £15k a month’ – it’s my passion
A HUSTLER quit his job to pursue his passion of creating vintage lights and now makes up to £15,000-a-month.
Ionut ‘John’ Scarlat makes the lamps from old items such as cameras, sewing machines, telephones and music instruments.
Ionut, from Bradford, West Yorkshire, told YorkshireLive: “This is my passion and I love doing it. I use all my free time to create these.
“I loved playing with and building rockets as a kid. When I grew up, I started seeing lots of vintage cameras for sale on Facebook marketplace and eBay. So I decided to use them to create lamps.”
Ionut began in 2015. He quit his job when his business was doing well, but had to get another job when it suffered during the pandemic.
He was selling around 20 lamps a month in February but was selling as many as 50 at his business’ height.
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He has received top reviews online company Etsy.
One customer who bought a lamp made from an old trumpet wrote: “This is, without doubt, the best lamp I’ve received today. I am in love!
“So well packaged that it survived some rather rough handling in transit. A marvellous use of an old instrument. Thanks so much!”
Another customer who got a Kodak camera lamp said: “There were so many very cool lamps, it was hard to choose. This lamp was perfect gift for a movie lover.
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“John was helpful with a US cord plug conversion, immediately responded and shipped so quickly in such a nicely “wrapped” package that I chose to present the box just as it was, with a red ribbon, for Christmas.”
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Alexia Grace, 24, says she “doesn’t miss” the rude flyers since she decided to quit the cabin crew to make racy content on OnlyFans.
The 24-year-old worked for Jet2 and then Costa coffee, but left her job as a barista in March 2021 to take saucy snaps instead.
She was only making £600 a week on the site at the time, but started pulling eight hour shifts a day to grow her account – which now rakes in an eye-watering £25k a month.
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Alexia is now looking to buy her first home with a budget of around 200k and has enjoyed travelling with her new earnings – spending six months in Dubai last year and two months in Mexico this year.
She’s made a whopping £270k on OnlyFans since starting in June 2020, and has even treated herself to a brand new Mercedes worth £25k last month.